{"id":8635,"date":"2025-08-20T12:22:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/?p=8635"},"modified":"2025-08-20T12:22:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:22:35","slug":"wednesday-20-08-2025-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/daily-news\/wednesday-20-08-2025-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday: 20\/08\/2025 \/ News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Daily News: 20\/08\/2025<\/h6>\n

Home Group Limited reported a \u00a334.7m surplus before tax for the year ending March 31, 2025, marking an \u00a311.5m improvement on the previous year and surpassing its financial targets, according to a recent trading update. <\/span>Investing.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Norwich City Council lost millions through its housing development company, Lion Homes, which has now been liquidated after a leaked report revealed its performance was \u201cnot regularly tracked\u201d. <\/span>BBC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Royal Borough of Greenwich is carrying out a major stock condition survey across 26,000 council homes to ensure residents have safe and secure housing. In the Borders, social housing is piloting a new energy storage system designed to cut residents\u2019 energy bills by up to 85%. <\/span>LABM<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>BBC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

A 15-week-old baby, Akram Mohammed, who lived in a mouldy Notting Hill Genesis flat in north London, died in February of unrelated causes, a coroner has ruled, contrary to his parents\u2019 concerns about damp conditions. <\/span>BBC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Thurston Group is pursuing long-term frameworks to counter revenue pressures while aiming for \u00a3100m turnover in six years. Costain reported higher half-year profits with margins heading to 4.5% despite HS2-related revenue dips, and administrators are investigating \u00a3200k in loans to directors of the collapsed Blenheim House Construction. <\/span>Construction Wave<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Construction Enquirer<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>Construction News (register)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

More than 2,000 new homes began construction in Northern Ireland in Q2 2025, the busiest period since early 2018, amid a chronic housing shortage and 48,000 households on the social housing waiting list. <\/span>BBC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Building Engineering Services Association has warned that overheating in buildings is now a critical safety issue, calling for urgent action as the UK faces its warmest summer on record. <\/span>BESA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Henry Boot\u2019s Hallam Land has secured permission for 1,270 homes in Tamworth and 1,200 in Fareham. In Glasgow, approval has been granted for over 700 build-to-rent flats and nearly 1,000 student rooms, while plans for 250 homes in Bicknacre face local opposition. Other proposals include 180 homes in Worcestershire, a 132-flat riverside scheme with reinvestment conditions, and up to 130 homes near Torrisholme Barrow. <\/span>Construction Enquirer<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Scottish Housing News<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Essex Live<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>BBC<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>BBC<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>Lancaster Guardian<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Daily News: 20\/08\/2025 Home Group Limited reported a \u00a334.7m surplus before tax for the year ending March 31, 2025, marking an \u00a311.5m improvement on the previous year and surpassing its financial targets, according to a recent trading update. Investing.com Norwich City Council lost millions through its housing development company, Lion Homes, which has now been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8639,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8635\/revisions\/8639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}